But until pandemic-related travel restrictions lift, we rail against a lesser evil: cabin fever. AdvertisementA celery field stretches to the foothills in California’s Salinas Valley. “Next I want to describe the Salinas Valley in detail but in sparse detail so that there can be a real feeling of it,” he wrote his editor, Pascal Covici. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. At least we know, thanks to Henry’s “The Handbook of Hymen” (found in “Heart of the West”), that books offer a foolproof cure for cabin fever.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 08, 2021 19:26 UTC